evolving-standards-of-decency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6775 Edward Thomas James v. Florida Florida 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency non-unanimous-jury Whether a state law prohibiting Florida courts from considering evolving standards of decency may preclude a death row inmate from challenging a non-u…
21-5232 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-29 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.…
18-9356 Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency…
18-9033 Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty against offenders who were under 21 at the time of their crime
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5937 Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama Alabama 2018-09-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors Whether Alabama's capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida and Caldwell v. Mississippi
18-5495 In Re Billy Ray Irick 2018-08-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing Whether the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitutes cruel and unusual punishm…